Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Manage your backup retentions policies with retdo

You have folders with all your backups but storage capacity is starting to become low ? Need to clean up all these old files but still want to keep some of them just in case ? Then retdo is the perfect tool !

Retdo is a little script I wrote that allows administrators to clean up files on a custom retention basics.
Retdo can be used to implement production's backups retention plans.

retdo can resolve the following queries :

- I want to keep only one file per week if files are older than 3 months up to 6 months.
- I want to keep only one file per month if files are older than 6 months up to 1 year.
- I want files older than 1 year to be moved to another machine.
- I want a cup of tea (feature in progress)

Thanks ! We found mutual help thanks to the power of the internet and open source !

I would recommend you use the -s option, then if your happy with it run it manually and finally put it in a cron.Just be careful is you have subdirectories, I should add a "recursive option" when I have the time.